SECURITY SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

01-18-2013

SECURITY SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Job Title: Security Solutions Architect

Location: US-CA-San Francisco

Targeted Start: 1/28/2013

Travel Required: No

 

Overview:

 

Solutions Architect needed to design and deliver e-mail gateway security, specifically enhancing Phishing/SPAM protection.

 

Contract Length: 6-12 Months

 

Location: San Francisco, CA

 

Responsibilities:

 

Drive planning & architecture roadmap creation & serve as a technical leader to all teams, helping to identify solutions and articulate costs, benefits, and risks to different options. 
Define high level architecture and technology strategies, best practices, guidelines and standards that balance short term and long term objectives in a pragmatic manner. 
Operate with a team of architects, sr. software developers and engineers 
Reviews the design and implementation of architecture components and map them to the long term vision. 
Participate in platform or vendor selection for all major security initiatives. 
Promote best practices for and mitigates risk of scalability & security concerns. 
Work with senior management to shape technology decisions around product capabilities, providing technical leadership and strategy advice.

 

Qualifications:

 

Experience (typically gained from 5-7 years) working in an Information Security role 
Familiarity with perimeter security concepts and infrastructure, including firewalls, VPN concentrators, IDS/IPS, and web gateway technologies 
Expertise in creating and maintaining large architectures, including modeling and application usage patterns 
Hands-on technical experience with e-mail security gateways, for example: Trustwave, Proofpoint, Symantec, McAfee, or others. 
Proven ability to develop architectures that incorporate high availability, operations supportability and scalability - an end to end perspective. 
Experience conducting proof-of-concept, developing prototyping and building reference models. 
Demonstrated track record in building and setting architecture strategy. 
Experience in engineering effort/resource estimation skills with the ability of optimizing architectures in given resource constraints or when these constraints change 
Strong written and verbal communication skills 
Extremely process and detail oriented 
Strong written and verbal communication skills, and familiarity with preparing documentation

 

Desired Education:

 

Bachelor’s degree preferred

 

Desired Certifications:

 

CISSP, GIAC, or other security certifications highly preferred

Technical certifications involving e-mail secure gateways preferred (e.g. Cisco, Symantec, McAfee, etc.)

Other technical certifications (CCSP, CCNP, JNCIS) preferred

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